The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

SEO is such a complex subject that you can barely scratch the surface in one hour so knowing where to go for more information is invaluable. Veredict : If you are new to using LinkedIn and Facebook for your business, Elyse’s presentation is a great starting point. and measure it religiously.

Inbound Marketing 100

Inbound Marketing Training Planning Work Management 100

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. If possible, add basic pricing information on your site to offer complete information without leaving your site. Having a search function on your website is no longer an option, it is a requirement.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Ranking 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

And they use different sources to get their information. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing CMS Development Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

By the time buyers reach the Procurement stage, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. Those that drop off the list are often those who did not provide the right level of information to buyers or did not meet some other perceived or real need in the buyer.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Web 2.0 Allocation 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

There have been many studies done over the years that indicate that price information is the very reason why most B2B buyers visit a vendor’s website. The results from three separate studies confirm this: 61% of engineers surveyed indicated pricing information as one of the primary reasons to visit a vendor’s website.

Sales Management 60

Sales Management Pricing Price Marketing Websites 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

According to Bob Carrigan, CEO of International Data Group , “It [content] fulfills the promise of the Web, which is relationship marketing.” Using content or Inbound Marketing , you are able to make that key connection with your prospects by delivering specific content needed in order to make an informed decision.

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Web 2.0 Buying Cycle Privacy Policies 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Make judicious use of Facebook, LinkedIn and Tweeter to communicate directly with your core audience and gather free market intelligence. Provide this information in plain English with compelling reasons for people to do business with you. Provide multiple ways to access relevant information with minimal clicks.

Rules 60

Rules Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

LinkedIn: Starting an Alumni Group When Linkedin started a groups feature (like Facebook groups) I thought about how I could network with former colleagues. Some of the smartest people that I knew were from a technology post-grad college that I attended called the “Information Technology Institute (ITI) in Toronto. That is very cool.

Social Media 100

Social Media Web 2.0 Media Blogger 100

The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

Choosing the right social media strategy While some may say that since your employees are already using social media (facebook pages, tweeter accounts, linkedin posts, etc.) This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 8:47 pm and is filed under Communication , Marketing Strategy , Online Marketing , Social Media. Please share!

Social Media 100

Social Media Planning Work Management Social Marketing 100

The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

From free PPC tips , free guide on Facebook for business , free eBook on Twitter for Business , free email marketing guide , and other miscellaneous free stuff (some of which you wish you had never found). You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Budget Programs Marketing Management 100

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Facebook Lets Users Open Up Profiles by MediaPost Online Media Daily Mark Walsh helpfully outlines the recent changes Facebook has made to its privacy settings, though noting that " profiles opened to everyone, however, will still not turn up in searches on Google or other outside search engines. " What’s In Your Social Media Toolkit?

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Burn Rate Web 2.0 20

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

According to Jeff Ogden, the Fearless Competitor , you are going to need two critical pieces of information to conduct a content audit. There is plenty of information out there about buyer personas. Read The Anatomy of a Great Web Persona by Brian Massey. And in a complex industrial buy cycle, things can get well…complicated.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

Webinar Metrics 60

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Product 60

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

In this 2 nd phase, released in September, 2009, the companies partnered with research firm OTX to validate their findings but this time they presented the survey respondents with actual search engine results pages. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples? Share your thoughts, post a comment.

Paid Search Agency 100

Paid Search Agency Web 2.0 Customer Satisfaction Keywords 100

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

The more detailed and specific information you can provide with the least number of search queries or clicks, the better will be the user experience. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet. That’s good news but it also creates a credibility problem.

Rules 60

Rules Marketing Websites Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? Studies have shown that people retain information quicker and longer when you engage their visual senses.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. Bloggers of all stripes have counted on the popularity of “list” posts whenever they’ve run out of fresh ideas for content.

Curation 60

Curation RSS Web 2.0 Content Marketing 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Capture visitor information – Implement a method to capture visitor information from your business blog. Install some kind of a sign-up form to capture basic contact information such as name, company name and email address. It has to be a value exchange for people to give up their contact information to you.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Not just any content, but ideas, information and expertise they find relevant and helpful for answering questions they have about problems they’re trying to solve. With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.

Planning 60

Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Thank you for a very informative post. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. {

Features 60

Features Web 2.0 Planning Work Management 60

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Study: Company Blogs Lead Social Media Options by MediaPost Mark Walsh reports that " blogging (is) the most important lead-generation source among social media options, followed by StumbleUpon, YouTube, Facebook, De.lic.ious and Digg " (not a surprising result, considering that those other sites tend to support a corporate blog, not replace it).

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Web 2.0 Paid Search Agency 20

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. How can you accomplish all that? In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Work Management Marketing Management 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Opportunity Development: Research, understand and distill the relevant industry-specific information, key issues and business needs in order to educate the company, especially the sales force, on the specific business requirements of a given market. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

Creativity 60

Creativity B2B Marketing Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Harness that power by gathering all the information and then editing the material into cohesive content. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Marketing Websites 60

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 60

Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 1, 2009

The exact quote was: "Companies that significantly reduce their sales and marketing investment in 2009 will be gone by 2010." Today, salespeople break the ice by reciting what they've read on the customer's wall on Facebook. Just last month I received an IM message on Facebook about a business opportunity. Sales 2.0,

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 Budget Programs 100

Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2009

In the fourth of a series of Thought Leader interviews for MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 , we talk to Richard Fouts, research director at Gartner, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company. New media and Web 2.0 You're able to make more informed decisions.

Gartner 100

Gartner Social Media Social Marketing Planning 100

Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In the fourth of a series of Thought Leader interviews for MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 , we talk to Richard Fouts, research director at Gartner, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company. New media and Web 2.0 You’re able to make more informed decisions.

Gartner 100

Gartner Social Media Social Marketing Planning 100

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Optimization 60

Optimization SEO Buying Cycle Web 2.0 60

Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 3, 2009

The exact quote was: "Companies that significantly reduce their sales and marketing investment in 2009 will be gone by 2010." Today, salespeople break the ice by reciting what they've read on the customer's wall on Facebook. Just last month I received an IM message on Facebook about a business opportunity. Sales 2.0,

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 Budget Programs 100

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Digital marketing has also changed how industrial and technical buyers behave, search and consume information that they need at different stages of the buy cycle. They prefer to consume information at their convenience and in their preferred format. If nothing else, it makes the mobile sales force much much more productive.

Social Media 60

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning 60

B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 10, 2010

Just as technology emerged in the movie industry to make 3D movie production more cost-effective, so too has it emerged to provide B2B marketers with a 3 dimensional, not 2 dimensional, platform to provide compelling information about products and services and engage the people who like them. Save the 4th dimension for Facebook.”

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing B2B Social Networks Opinions 100

B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 10, 2010

Just as technology emerged in the movie industry to make 3D movie production more cost-effective, so too has it emerged to provide B2B marketers with a 3 dimensional, not 2 dimensional, platform to provide compelling information about products and services and engage the people who like them. Save the 4th dimension for Facebook.”

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing B2B Social Networks Opinions 100

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You are welcome to participate and critique, praise, extend, or correct the information and opinions found on this blog. So I’m recommending that — in 2009 — marketers focus more on using Web sites to cut sales interaction costs. This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research.

Marketing Mix 40

Marketing Mix Tactics Work Management Marketing Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

It digs up information on Web visitors in real time, helping salespeople follow up on a visit with a cold call and a pitch. Detailed information is vital for spotting potential customers. “How do you leverage otherwise anonymous traffic?&# Together, this offers clues about what the visitor might be interested in buying.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 40

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# It’s not hard, it’s complicated.

Social Media 149

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 149

B2B Marketing Traction

JANUARY 20, 2011

Less than a year ago Facebook changed its privacy policies and clumsily lost the trust of some of its users – including those who wanted to establish a business presence on Facebook. The reaction was so intense I removed all mention of Facebook in the social media presentations I did for most of last year. or 33 million.

Facebook 100

Facebook Privacy Policies Ideal Customer Profiles Privacy 100